Year 7: Leilani wants another pet, so we adopt a pet Bunny and she names it Sparkles.

Year 8: Xavier and I realize our family is too big for our house. Our new house is a 2-story white house in the countryside. It has a big backyard for the kids to roam and play in.

Year 9: Although we love the new house, its so big it feels empty. Annelise wants a baby sister, but with failed attempts, I dont get pregnant. Xavier and I decide to adopt twins. A few months later, VioletAria and DeclanJames are part of our family.

Year 10: Ronan, Holden and Lucas insist we get another pet. They choose a loud talking parrot and name him Greenwald(he's green)

Year 11: Xavier is offered a job in England and we cannot pass it up. We move our seven kids and three pets to a small countryside near Manchester in a house much like our house in California.

Year 12: Xavier inherets lots of money from his great-grandmother Polly who passed away. We decide to fill the empty horse stable with two horses who the kids named Ryder and Ruby.

Year 2: When the triplets are a few months old, Reece and Juliette move to Reece's hometown of Dallas, Texas, where Reece's parents help them buy an old farmhouse. Juliette starts work on her first novel, and Reece gets a job at a local law firm.

Year 3: Juliette's younger brother Jamie, who has recently broken up with his girlfriend, moves to Dallas to stay with the family while he gets his head together. Reece and Juliette appreciate Jamie's help with their three rambunctious two-year-olds. After celebrating Christmas with the family, Jamie finds a place of his own nearby.

Year 5: In 2016, Juliette and Jamie decide to open an antique store together called Second Chances. Jamie turns out to be a talented businessman, and the store thrives.

Year 6: In 2017, an old college friend of the Hastings passes away, and leaves his only child, a three-year-old boy named LandryJames, to Reece and Juliette. They adopt the boy, and he becomes LandryJames Hastings.

Year 7: Though they love Texas, the family moves to SantaFe, New Mexico, where Reece gets a job offer with a law firm.

Year 13: The children tell Reece and Juliette that Watson is lonely and needs a friend. After discussing it, Reece and Juliette decide to adopt another pet. When they arrive at the pound to choose a pet, they fall in love with two cats and bring them both home--a GingerTabby named Venturo and an American Wirehair named Calico.

Year 14: In 2025, the Hastings family attends the wedding of Reece's nephew Clay and his girlfriend, Katie.

Year 15: The next year, the Hastings welcomes a baby boy, JesseDallas.

Year 16: Landry finds a tiny little teacup poodle that doesn't have a home. Reece and Juliette agree to let the dog stay, and Landry names him Cruz.

2013: JohnColin and I decide to become foster parents. We take in a six-year-old little girl, called EmilyAnne Wheatley. She lights up our lives and we become a family, formally and legally, on Christmas.

2014: I get a new job that is pretty cool - I become a designer for ModCloth.

2015: Emily gets a part acting in a TV show! Alas, though, she only has two lines and only appears once, but we are overjoyed for her. Her role was Girl by Ice Cream Truck.

2016: JohnColin and I become unexpectedly pregnant! Nine months later, we have a little boy - NoahJames McGillfillan.

2017: My fourteen-year-old sister, AlexandraMarie Knowles, comes to stay with us while our parents are getting a divorce. She only stays for a year, but overall she was a great addition to our family. She helped out with Noah and Emily and was very grateful. We were all sad to have her go.

2019: Our family welcomes twins! One is a little girl, JuliaClaire McGillfillan, and the other is a baby boy, HenryMichael McGillfillan.

2020: JohnColin and I decided with five kids; we were done. But God had other plans. We have a baby girl called ChristinaMarie McGillfillan.

2021: This time, it's my husband who gets a cool new job. He becomes a chef for a five-star restaurant.

2022: With six kids, we decide to move to a new house. We move to a bigger house in a nicer suburb. This new white house has a patio and pool, plus five bedrooms and five bathrooms.

2023: When we moved into our new house, we found it had a huge problem - bugs. Our belongings were quickly put in to storage, and it took exterminators a year to get the bugs out. Meanwhile, our family stayed with John's parents. That was very stressful. My parents weren't used to having six kids running around and were often irritable. We make the best of it, though, and move back into our new house around Halloween.

2024: With Emily about to graduate, JohnColin and I decided to have another baby. I was able to get pregnant, but the pregnancy was hard and we lost the baby at twenty weeks. Her name would have been MaeveElizabeth. Four months later, though, on a brighter note, I fell unexpectedly pregnant! I gave birth to a baby boy, ThomasAndrew McGillfillan, soon after.

2025: Our family decides to move again. This time, we move to Albequerque.

2026: The same agency that gave us Emily decides to have us foster another child. This time, a six-year-old little boy called BraydenAnthonyEllis comes to live with us.

2028: I give birth to twins, a baby boy and a baby girl, in April. The baby boy is called MarkAndrew McGillfillan and the baby girl is called SarahElizabeth McGillfillan.

2029: Our neighbor, ChristianJosephTaylor, dies in a car crash. We are all devastated and were very surprio see that he left his two daughters in the care of JohnColin and I. After four months of court negotiations (their mother was out of the picture), we adopt four-year-old SophiaLynn and three-year-old JoannaGrace.

2030: I get a small tattoo, of all of the kids' initials, on my upper arm. Also, this year we formally adopted Brayden, Sophia, and Joanna.

2031: Our family needs a bigger house. So we move to one in Austin, Texas.

2032: Our family decides to move to England, where the kids go to an American school. We move to London.